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Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...
New Consumer Viewing Behaviors Force The Industry Into A New Future
Since its invention, TV has beaten back many challenges to retain its place as the king of the media plan. That won't change anytime soon, but the way advertisers plan and buy their campaigns will....
Landscape: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is no longer just a tool for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers to measure the effect of traditional marketing on overall sales. Today, marketing mix modeling can help all...

Continuous Improvement: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
This report of the digital media buying playbook will guide marketers to think beyond the possibilities of programmatic media management in display; take them down the path to embracing programmatic...
Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

Organization: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Long-term, digital media buying success requires a commitment to the right partnerships, staffing, and organizational structure. The organization report in the digital media buying playbook will help...
Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

Landscape: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Interactive display marketing investment will grow at a compound annual rate of 17% in the United States between 2012 and 2017, while Europe's will grow slightly more slowly. Double-digit growth...

Why GRPs Will Fade As The Metric But Endure As The Currency For TV And Video
Consumers are rapidly shifting the way they watch TV, embracing a wide variety of digital platforms to watch on their own terms. But the vast majority of advertising investments are still planned,...
Vision: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Media buying technology and operations are undergoing a dramatic transformation — marketers are replacing traditional relationship-marketing tactics and opaque ad networks with programmatic...
Executive Overview: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Digital media buying is undergoing seismic change. Where there were once legions of junior staff managing relationship-based buys, there are now sophisticated real-time technologies. Participants...

Tools And Technology: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
The linchpins of every effective media buyer's practice are the partner and vendor relationships that allow the buyer to create truly valuable customer experiences. The technology ecosystem for...
How To Get The Right Mix Of Service And Performance
Interactive marketers have more choices than ever when it comes to picking media buying partners. Once dominant, media buying agencies now face stiff competition from a whole host of new specialists...

Money Shifts To Operations In the Tech Marketing Flywheel
Tech marketers are making a big investment in the transition from "art to science" in 2012 as they flow more money into the activities and technologies of marketing operations. Two factors stand out...

Oreck decided it was time to get smart about impression delivery across multiple channels. Working with partner Knotice, Oreck created a unified view of the customer to effectively target and deliver...

Those Who Plan Carefully Before Investing Will Achieve Optimal Results
As tech marketers begin to embrace discussion forums and online communities as effective ways to engage with BT customers, they increasingly seek guidance on best practices and recommended...
US financial services interactive marketing spend will more than double by 2016 but won't grow its investments in every channel at the same pace. This brief report breaks down the increase by channel...
Insights From The Forrester Wave™: Sell-Side Platforms, Q4 2011
Publishers judge sell-side platforms (SSPs) primarily by the size of the check delivered by the vendor at the end of a month-long test. By making such a short-sighted decision, however, publishers...
AppNexus and Admeld Lead, With Multiple Vendors Close Behind
In Forrester's 34-criteria evaluation of sell-side platform vendors, we found that AppNexus and Admeld led the pack because of their highly granular controls for publishers and proven ability to...
MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu Vie For Top Honors
In Forrester's 48-criteria evaluation of demand-side platform (DSP) vendors, we found that MediaMath, Turn, and DataXu led the pack because of the breadth of their media access, the depth and acumen...
Make The Most Of Your TV Media Buys
Networks have launched co-viewing apps for PCs, tablets, and smartphone devices and are seeing some great results — from driving tune-in to additional engagement, loyalty, and recall....
Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers
Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...
The days of the fun — but not very efficient — three-martini lunch are waning. A new breed of technology-centric tools and processes, such as those found in demand-side platforms (DSPs),...